Me Myself and I Day Spa

05/13/2026

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You have been fine for years. That is exactly why so many nail techs struggle to believe allergic reactions can happen to them.

Your immune system and the amount of repeated exposure determine whether that reaction happens in one day, one week, one year, 20 years, 30 years, or even 40 years from now if you are not protecting yourself.

Protecting yourself means:

• wearing gloves

• changing gloves when they become soiled with uncured gel

•musing a matched tested lamp

• keeping layers thin enough to properly cure

• avoiding skin contact

• leaving a margin around the nail and skin

• not mixing brands

• not creating your own gel colors by mixing products together

• understanding that marketing claims like “touchable gel” and “universal lamps” are not true.

You can wipe away the surface of uncured product. You cannot wipe away what has already bonded with the proteins in your skin.

Repeated exposure does not always create an immediate reaction. Sometimes the body tolerates repeated contact until one day it does not. Being “fine so far” is not the same thing as being protected long term.

Many of us were taught these habits were normal. Many were never taught what repeated exposure to uncured nail product can lead to over time.

Nobody thinks it will happen to them until it does. I know I did!

The Healthy Nails Collaborative Nail Tech Accreditation takes you through Doug Schoon’s new textbook page by page so you can have the knowledge you need for you, your clients and even become a nail educator yourself!

05/05/2026

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04/20/2026

04/13/2026

This is what you’re seeing when the nail plate starts to peel and layer. The nail is made up of compacted layers of keratin, and when those layers lose cohesion, they begin to separate. This can happen from repeated exposure to water, dehydration, mechanical stress, or the constant expansion and contraction the nail goes through in daily life. With regular polish, it simply sits on top of the nail and dries through solvent evaporation. It does not form a new structure with the nail plate, so the natural nail underneath is still fully exposed to water, swelling, drying, and shrinking. That ongoing movement puts stress on the nail plate and can lead to those layers separating, which is what you’re seeing here. Notice it’s only white where the nail polish was growing out. Gel polish behaves differently. It doesn’t dry, it cures into a crosslinked polymer network that creates a more rigid coating over the nail. This limits how much water the nail can absorb, reduces expansion and contraction, and adds structural support to the nail plate. Because the nail is more stable underneath, you’re less likely to see that same peeling and layering. This is why someone may experience peeling with regular polish but not with gel. It’s not that gel is fixing the nail, it’s that it’s controlling the environment around it. This is where chemistry is so interesting, because two products can look similar on the surface, but behave very differently in how they interact with the natural nail.

03/04/2026

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01/16/2026

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01/07/2026

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11/26/2025

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